FALLING FAST

“It’s such an honour to represent the UK, so the whole country needs to get behind her.”

Lucie has promised simple, powerful staging for her song tonight, but there will be the usual array of bizarre routines. Not least this year’s favourite to win, Italy’s Francesco Gabbani, who is joined on stage by a man in a gorilla outfit.

“There are so many moments during Eurovision that defy logic – that defy anything – and the bonkers ideas that countries thought were good are so entertaining. I love it when you get to say: ‘There is no explaining this one.’”